When the Huawei Ascend launches upon prepaid conduit Cricket Wireless later this month, it will price $150. That’s not after the remission or with the two-year agreement, mind you — for three portraits of Ulysses S. Grant, you actually own a phone. Of march, you regularly get what you compensate for to a little degree, and a Ascend positively isn’t the top-tier device — it’s the common HVGA handset done of cheap cosmetic which felt similar to it wouldn’t tarry the dump. The 3.5-inch capacitive touchscreen was lifeless as well as actually slightly rough to a hold, and a 3.2 megapixel fixed-focus camera around behind doesn’t fire VGA video (just QIF), let alone quality snapshots. Still, it’s got physical buttons in all a right places (including a bendy steel Send / Menu / Back / End panel upon the bottom) and the surprisingly manageable Android 2.1 UI with the couple of tidy quirks — like the nine-panel home screen — so we could honestly see this EV-DO Rev. A handset being the flattering illusory Android for first-time users. We’d choose it over the Motorola Citrus in a heartbeat, that’s for certain, generally when Cricket gets the Sprint roaming agreement in sequence later this year. Of course, that’s assuming a Huawei Ideos doesn’t arrive at an even cheaper pricepoint. We’ve got the short video of a Ascend after the break, as good as the MiFi-like Huawei device called a Crosswave — won’t you give it the look? Huawei Ascend, hands-on

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